The Research Portal of Catalonia: an aggregator of research outputs with CERIF and DSpace-CRIS at its core
«Competition seems to prevail over cooperation»
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The blurred boundaries between Research Information Management (RIM) and Research Management and Administration (RMA)
The stated mission of euroCRIS as a non-profit organisation is to promote cooperation within and share knowledge among the research information management (RIM) community and to promote interoperability of research information through CERIF, the Common European Research Information Format.
Introducing the new euroCRIS President for the term 2021-2022: Sadia Vancauwenbergh (U Hasselt)
Sadia Vancauwenbergh (U Hasselt) is the new euroCRIS President since the 1st of January 2021
Recommendations on the inclusion of research classifications in EOSC
Left to right, Hanne Poelmans (U Hasselt), Sven Blanck (Uni Leipzig) and Jürgen Güdler (German Research Foundation, DFG)
at the Round Table discussion on Research Classifications, Münster membership meeting, Nov 2019
A big loss for the euroCRIS Board
Following her appointment as the University of Sheffield Interim Library Director and University Librarian, Anna Clements stepped down from the euroCRIS Board as of August 30th. The sheer volume and complexity of her tasks at her institution in these difficult times made it impossible for her to commit to keep providing the valuable input to the euroCRIS team that she has delivered for many years. euroCRIS’s loss is Uni Sheffield’s win.
Persistent identifiers for research instruments and facilities?
The virtual 2020 VIVO annual conference last week offered an opportunity to catch up with the PIDINST project via a presentation of the initiative by Markus Stocker from the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB, Technical Information Library) in Hannover. The slides and recording for the presentation are not yet available online but will soon be – an earlier version (2017) was deposited in Zenodo.
Insights from the euroCRIS Board: CERIF and the KDSF
Interesting discussions often take place within the euroCRIS Board mailing list on relevant topics related to the CERIF format and to Current Research Information Systems (CRIS). As this is a closed list for euroCRIS Board members only, these conversations remain internal in nine out of every ten cases. Having a blog however offers us an opportunity to occasionally share some of the highlights of a specific exchange of opinions among experts in these matters.
Astronomy, research information management and return of investment in research
There were several reasons why this was so. First and foremost, because of the opportunity to raise an increasingly relevant topic (RIM) that is already offering new professional horizons to a growing number of institutional research libraries around the world (see ample evidence for this in the recent 'Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management' report jointly produced by OCLC and euroCRIS).
An update on the DRIS: the DRIS map and the online form for DRIS data delivery
The main aim of this DRIS enhancement is to be able to provide a summary of CRIS system implementation in a given region in a single snapshot.